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authorGustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>2017-12-06 14:20:15 -0600
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-04-13 19:48:09 +0200
commit715f7e3efef0227865162b00d13321431be7962f (patch)
tree66021660a5b2c9e7a963f7ebba9acbe7106bbf00 /drivers/devfreq
parent3aa66ba53e65ba53529fd07e1cdde5063b6a2c5a (diff)
PM / devfreq: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference in governor_store
[ Upstream commit 63f1e05f7fe9ca509c60154d6a833abf96eecdc9 ] df->governor is being dereferenced before it is null checked, hence there is a potential null pointer dereference. Notice that df->governor is being null checked at line 1004: if (df->governor) {, which implies it might be null. Fix this by null checking df->governor before dereferencing it. Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1401988 ("Dereference before null check") Fixes: bcf23c79c4e4 ("PM / devfreq: Fix available_governor sysfs") Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com> Reviewed-by: Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: MyungJoo Ham <myungjoo.ham@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/devfreq')
-rw-r--r--drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
index 9e5674c5a07b..db70cee71caa 100644
--- a/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
+++ b/drivers/devfreq/devfreq.c
@@ -943,7 +943,8 @@ static ssize_t governor_store(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *attr,
if (df->governor == governor) {
ret = 0;
goto out;
- } else if (df->governor->immutable || governor->immutable) {
+ } else if ((df->governor && df->governor->immutable) ||
+ governor->immutable) {
ret = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}